twentysomething

Title: Just to Save Me Some Money

Fandom: Hawaii Five-0

Pairing: Steve/Alwaysagirl!Danni (Wild Honey 'Verse)

Summary: ""So, girls in this bed, boys in that bed?" Kono asks around a mouthful of toothpaste she's scrubbing against her teeth with her finger."

Length: 850 wordsish.

Warnings: Chin Ho Kelly just wants to fucking go to sleep, man.

Notes: I forgot I'd written this on my iPhone in some fit of computerless boredom at some point, but since I'm working on some more girl!Danny, I figured, why the hell not? This actually takes place between Love's Coming Down on Me and No Good Will It Do You. Romantic getaways aren't in Steve McGarrett's vocabulary, I don't think. For leupagus, who encouraged me- as usual- to take the high road. And by "high road", I mean "totally fucking terrible road". Kisses, boo.



They have to spend the night in Kauai. Danni's not thrilled, by any definition of the word, mostly because they're staying at the only hotel without a ludicrous price tag attached, in the only vacancy, which involves two queen sized beds within two feet of each other.

"Some how, this is not what I imagined our first night away would be like." Danni mutters as she flops down on one of the beds, face down. Steve just blinks at her, of course. When they'd said one room down at reception, Steve had just shrugged and nodded. Steve's most primal pack instincts are actually probably pleased by this, so in the event of a raid, or zombie apocalypse or whatever, they're all within eyesight.

"So, girls in this bed, boys in that bed?" Kono asks around a mouthful of toothpaste she's scrubbing against her teeth with her finger. Chin just eyeballs Danni, as if he's remembering that one time- in the line of duty- she grabbed his cousin's ass and he just shakes his head.

"Nah, I'll bunk in with you, cuz." Chin says, too casual, like he thinks Danni's going to molest Kono while she's sleeping- like anyone could do that and survive. Danni rolls her eyes, and waits for Steve to protest, but he just shrugs again, and pulls off his shirt because he hates clothing and Danni's sanity.

Kono shrugs too, and since Danni is surrounded by unfairly attractive people with no body image issues, drops trou, pulls her bra out her sleeve and hops into bed, apparently instantly asleep. Chin just shucks off his jeans and kicks off all the covers before closing his eyes.

Danni's considering sleeping in the bathtub.

She's wearing a button-down and a skirt and she sighs before rigidly laying down on top of the covers, anticipating a thoroughly uncomfortable night.

"Seriously?" Steve asks, giving her this ridiculous incredulous look, rendered even stupider because he's just in just his boxers and she can see his tramp stamp.

"Yeah, what?" she demands. Steve just rolls his eyes and throws his shirt at her.

Danni hisses and bats it out of the air before it can hit her in the face.

"What the fuck," she demands. Steve sighs.

"Take off your stupid suit and put the t-shirt on, Danno," Steve says and Danni just raises an eyebrow at him. Steve crosses his arms. "I'm not going to lie there all night and listen to you sulk." Danni bites back an instinctive "that's not what you said last night" because she's not stupid, there's no way Chin and Kono are actually asleep.

"I hate you so much," Danni mutters, even as she stalks into the bathroom to change.

The shirt is stupidly big on her- not that she expected anything else. Despite all threats to the contrary, she hasn't worn any of Steve's clothes, but it smells like his deodorant and is still warm. Danni really hates that- after missing the last boat back, having spent all day chasing stupid leads all over this stupid island, probably spending all day tomorrow doing the same thing- it actually sort of makes her feel better. She leaves her clothes in an orderly pile on the bathroom counter, tiptoeing back out into the dark room.

"Seriously, hate you so much." she whispers at Steve. She can feel him shrug, even though her eyes haven't fully adjusted to the darkness yet.

"What? It's not anything I haven't seen before." he says, quietly. Danni kicks out blindly and is gratified to her Steve grunt.

"Christ, you're such a brat," Steve growls at her. Danni smirks at him, and then slaps at his hands when he reaches for her.

"Oh, hell no," she hisses at him. Steve just stares at her.

"What?" Steve demands. Danni glares at him.

"Don't even," she whispers back angrily. "A) you're a dick, b) our teammates are three feet away." Steve huffs out a silent laugh.

"I think I can resist you for one night," he replies. "You're stealing all the blankets. Come here." Danni slaps at his hands again.

"Stop it!" she says, and there's a loud sigh from across the room.

"Ugh, I don't care if you guys have an orgy over there, just as long as you do it quietly," Kono groans.

"Seriously, everyone knows you're sleeping together. Shut up and go to sleep." Chin adds.

Danni is busy being struck dumb with horror but Steve just starts laughing because he is a bad person.

"Oh, holy God," Danni mutters. Steve just chuckles and tugs her and the blankets over smack up against him.

"Let it go, Danno." Steve advises. Kono snorts.

"If everyone in this room doesn't shut up and go to bed right now, I'll kill all of you and hide the bodies in the morning. No one would even press charges." Chin says loudly and after a long mutinous pause, the room settles into silence.

Steve presses his lips to the edge of her jaw once, and tucks his face against her neck and falls asleep.

Danni spends about half a minute wondering how awkward the morning will be, but gives up.

She'll deal with this shit later.